comment by Champers - Pow! Right in the kisser (U6859)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by JonnyLosAngeles (My Dad was made in Leeds) עם ישראל חי (U9756)
posted 1 minute ago
With 80% of the season played, the fair solution is to complete the season.
Hopefully in 3 weeks time the virus has run its course through the vast majority of each club's personnel and the season can be resumed.
If so, all internationals need to be scrapped for now.
The clubs will have one week's of fixtures to complete, 3 games. Resume with the calendar as previously scheduled and add the 3 missed games to the back end of the season which therefore ends one week later than scheduled with promotion playoffs to follow.
QED!!!
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Sadly, in 3 weeks time this thing will most likely be somewhere close to its peak. No way is football resuming in the first week of April.
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Perhaps for the country as a whole, we are talking about 3,500 -5,000 people here.
comment by Champers - Pow! Right in the kisser (U6859)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by VOF - I can see clearly now.... (U17124)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by The Owl 🦉 & hELLo Kitty (U1750)
posted 1 minute ago
I don't really care what happens tbh. I've just got back from my Mum's nursing home and they are not allowing any visitors from Monday morning. Who knows how long it will be before I see her after that
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Went to see my father in law today (he's 90) in care home near us. He's got every ailment under the sun, exists a life as it is. Very sad to see.
He's begged me to go contract the virus then come back and give him a big hug. So sad when life comes to that for someone. We believe we'll be stopped from Monday too, so i'll need to break in to grant him his wish after that.
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Heartbreaking. My grandad was like that. Spent the last two years of visiting him trying to ignore his pleas of wanting to die.
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Yep sounds very familiar.... if it were legal I’d be driving him to Switzerland..... he’s got zero quality of life.
Think the peak is expected around May time. So realistically we may be looking at July. Cram the remaining games in and then start the next season later and potentially have to fit more games in mid week.
I had tickets and planned for all the England Euros and that will be cancelled until I presume summer 2021.
"...he’s got zero quality of life."
My mom has been in the same situation for a few years now following a stroke about 7 years ago. Just steadily deteriorated. Just visited her in SA to celebrate her 93rd birthday and in 3 visits she only knew who I was once - on her birthday. I left the country that night.
Wrenching experience!
comment by JonnyLosAngeles (My Dad was made in Leeds) עם ישראל חי (U9756)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
With 80% of the season played, the fair solution is to complete the season.
Hopefully in 3 weeks time the virus has run its course through the vast majority of each club's personnel and the season can be resumed.
If so, all internationals need to be scrapped for now.
The clubs will have one week's of fixtures to complete, 3 games. Resume with the calendar as previously scheduled and add the 3 missed games to the back end of the season which therefore ends one week later than scheduled with promotion playoffs to follow.
QED!!!
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I like the idea of resuming the season's matches when this Coronavirus has run its course. But the prime motivation of modern football is to make – and spend – money, to an obscene degree. So it will never happen. The moguls of the Premier would sooner sacrifice the likes of Leeds than a full season's revenue.
Seasons over!
Starting next season could even be a problem
I really don't get the obsession with next season. People seem so concerned with next season over one that has been 80% completed. We can adapt next season, where not a minute has been played.
We don't know when the situation settles and we can play again. But whenever that is, it's perfectly reasonable to complete the current season. Not sure how it makes any difference to the response to the virus whether we void the season or suspend it.
Suspend the season, complete it when we can. Adapt the following season.
Well stated Best Fans! Too much has happened in this season for it just to be scrapped.
It can be rescued.
It’s a tough one: on the one hand, there is a global pandemic bringing the world to a standstill, affecting billions and threatening the lives of millions. On the other hand, a few thickos from Leeds are going to be a bit peeved because they might not go from one division of football to another division of football.
See you next season lads.
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It’s a tough one: on the one hand, there is a global pandemic bringing the world to a standstill, affecting billions and threatening the lives of millions. On the other hand, a few thickos from Leeds are going to be a bit peeved because they might not go from one division of football to another division of football.
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No one is suggesting this isn't the right thing to do at the moment or that sport is more important than what is happening in the world. But people are allowed to discuss what will happen to sport on a football forum, even if it's not the most important thing, stop clutching your pearls.
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
It’s a tough one: on the one hand, there is a global pandemic bringing the world to a standstill, affecting billions and threatening the lives of millions. On the other hand, a few thickos from Leeds are going to be a bit peeved because they might not go from one division of football to another division of football.
See you next season lads.
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Boring.
Look forward to watching us on telly in the Prem, mate.
The easy and obvious thing to do is tell the players and staff to self isolate for a couple of weeks, then none of them will have the virus anymore, then crack on and play the rest of the season in empty stadia. The whole thing is becoming farcical here in New Zealand where i live, 5, yes just 5 confirmed cases of the virus are among us, all of who are isolated, yet still they are cancelling festivals last minute and still the lemmings are ransacking supermarkets for toilet roll. 0.000001% of our population has the virus and is isolated, yet still the panic happens.
For the vast, vast, vast majority of us a cold is as bad as it will get, it's only those that are pretty much ruined anyway that it's pushing over the edge, so harsh as it may sound, just let it run it's course and carry on as normal. Closing everything down for a month or more will ruin far more lives than the virus
Agree with all that, the truth is that people generally don’t behave responsibly in these situations. If everyone did so these drastic measures would not be necessary.
It’s a serious situation but is not a calamity on a big picture level. Of course individual deaths are tragic!
comment by Harper - Ram in Auckland. meh. (U13926)
posted 1 hour, 1 minute ago
For the vast, vast, vast majority of us a cold is as bad as it will get, it's only those that are pretty much ruined anyway that it's pushing over the edge, so harsh as it may sound, just let it run it's course and carry on as normal. Closing everything down for a month or more will ruin far more lives than the virus
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Id happily have a cough for 48 hours if it meant we beat Fulham at ER
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Governments cannot do nothing and let it run its course just because it’ll only kill off the old and the sick.
It would mean them having a hand in the deaths of thousands of their own citizens. This isn’t WW2 Germany.
Some folk need to get some proper perspective.
We have to try and if we lose to it then so be it but we have definitely got to try.
comment by Rameses, Kom op jij Rams (U7190)
posted 9 minutes ago
Governments cannot do nothing and let it run its course just because it’ll only kill off the old and the sick.
It would mean them having a hand in the deaths of thousands of their own citizens. This isn’t WW2 Germany.
Some folk need to get some proper perspective.
We have to try and if we lose to it then so be it but we have definitely got to try.
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Agree with this. at any rate it would be smart to treat this as the dress rehearsal for the big burger that coming up next and possibly just round the corner....
I’d like nothing better than for football to be re-starting in the near future, but it’s not realistic. Cases are going to steadily increase over the next three months. Unless every player of every club has been infected and recovered then they will remain vulnerable. While the advice for self-isolation continues the outbreak will last for months not weeks. This is the intention. While you might think it would be better if everybody got it now so that it would all be over more quickly, the NHS would be utterly overwhelmed. It still might be, even with it spread over months. Even if you had a policy of not actively treating anybody over 70, there will still be large numbers of people below that age needing intensive care. Having an age cut-off is not something society would accept anyway, although it is inevitable that there will be a large element of unofficial rationing in hospitals when intensive care beds are in very short supply.
Whether we like it or not, it’s going to drag on for a very long time. The reasons for this suspension are still going to be there in a few months time, unless something drastically unexpected happens. I understand the desire to shoot the messenger, feel free, but it just seems inevitable that at some point the complexities of trying to cram everything in, coupled with the uncertainty about when that would even be possible, will lead to a pragmatic decision to make it the season that never happened and start afresh, maybe in September.
Calm down folks. I can understand the panic but history suggests an antidote will soon be found. A vaccine is in the offing. Only a matter of time and we can all put this behind us.
There is no ‘antidote”. This is a virus. A vaccine is probably about 18 months away at the earliest. These are simple facts.
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 2 minutes ago
There is no ‘antidote”. This is a virus. A vaccine is probably about 18 months away at the earliest. These are simple facts.
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China say they nearly have one ready for testing. They would wouldn’t they?
Call it antidote , call it vaccine as long as it's efficacious. Pre clinical trials are ongoing in the development of a vaccine. Only problem of course is the human trials which usually pass through strict regulation. But then if this becomes even more serious, surely the regulatory agencies will bend the rules.
Google Medicago and covid19.
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posted on 13/3/20
comment by Champers - Pow! Right in the kisser (U6859)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by JonnyLosAngeles (My Dad was made in Leeds) עם ישראל חי (U9756)
posted 1 minute ago
With 80% of the season played, the fair solution is to complete the season.
Hopefully in 3 weeks time the virus has run its course through the vast majority of each club's personnel and the season can be resumed.
If so, all internationals need to be scrapped for now.
The clubs will have one week's of fixtures to complete, 3 games. Resume with the calendar as previously scheduled and add the 3 missed games to the back end of the season which therefore ends one week later than scheduled with promotion playoffs to follow.
QED!!!
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Sadly, in 3 weeks time this thing will most likely be somewhere close to its peak. No way is football resuming in the first week of April.
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Perhaps for the country as a whole, we are talking about 3,500 -5,000 people here.
posted on 13/3/20
comment by Champers - Pow! Right in the kisser (U6859)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by VOF - I can see clearly now.... (U17124)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by The Owl 🦉 & hELLo Kitty (U1750)
posted 1 minute ago
I don't really care what happens tbh. I've just got back from my Mum's nursing home and they are not allowing any visitors from Monday morning. Who knows how long it will be before I see her after that
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Went to see my father in law today (he's 90) in care home near us. He's got every ailment under the sun, exists a life as it is. Very sad to see.
He's begged me to go contract the virus then come back and give him a big hug. So sad when life comes to that for someone. We believe we'll be stopped from Monday too, so i'll need to break in to grant him his wish after that.
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Heartbreaking. My grandad was like that. Spent the last two years of visiting him trying to ignore his pleas of wanting to die.
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Yep sounds very familiar.... if it were legal I’d be driving him to Switzerland..... he’s got zero quality of life.
posted on 13/3/20
Think the peak is expected around May time. So realistically we may be looking at July. Cram the remaining games in and then start the next season later and potentially have to fit more games in mid week.
I had tickets and planned for all the England Euros and that will be cancelled until I presume summer 2021.
posted on 13/3/20
"...he’s got zero quality of life."
My mom has been in the same situation for a few years now following a stroke about 7 years ago. Just steadily deteriorated. Just visited her in SA to celebrate her 93rd birthday and in 3 visits she only knew who I was once - on her birthday. I left the country that night.
Wrenching experience!
posted on 13/3/20
comment by JonnyLosAngeles (My Dad was made in Leeds) עם ישראל חי (U9756)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
With 80% of the season played, the fair solution is to complete the season.
Hopefully in 3 weeks time the virus has run its course through the vast majority of each club's personnel and the season can be resumed.
If so, all internationals need to be scrapped for now.
The clubs will have one week's of fixtures to complete, 3 games. Resume with the calendar as previously scheduled and add the 3 missed games to the back end of the season which therefore ends one week later than scheduled with promotion playoffs to follow.
QED!!!
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I like the idea of resuming the season's matches when this Coronavirus has run its course. But the prime motivation of modern football is to make – and spend – money, to an obscene degree. So it will never happen. The moguls of the Premier would sooner sacrifice the likes of Leeds than a full season's revenue.
posted on 13/3/20
Seasons over!
Starting next season could even be a problem
posted on 13/3/20
I really don't get the obsession with next season. People seem so concerned with next season over one that has been 80% completed. We can adapt next season, where not a minute has been played.
We don't know when the situation settles and we can play again. But whenever that is, it's perfectly reasonable to complete the current season. Not sure how it makes any difference to the response to the virus whether we void the season or suspend it.
Suspend the season, complete it when we can. Adapt the following season.
posted on 13/3/20
Well stated Best Fans! Too much has happened in this season for it just to be scrapped.
It can be rescued.
posted on 13/3/20
It’s a tough one: on the one hand, there is a global pandemic bringing the world to a standstill, affecting billions and threatening the lives of millions. On the other hand, a few thickos from Leeds are going to be a bit peeved because they might not go from one division of football to another division of football.
See you next season lads.
posted on 13/3/20
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posted on 13/3/20
posted on 13/3/20
It’s a tough one: on the one hand, there is a global pandemic bringing the world to a standstill, affecting billions and threatening the lives of millions. On the other hand, a few thickos from Leeds are going to be a bit peeved because they might not go from one division of football to another division of football.
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No one is suggesting this isn't the right thing to do at the moment or that sport is more important than what is happening in the world. But people are allowed to discuss what will happen to sport on a football forum, even if it's not the most important thing, stop clutching your pearls.
posted on 14/3/20
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
It’s a tough one: on the one hand, there is a global pandemic bringing the world to a standstill, affecting billions and threatening the lives of millions. On the other hand, a few thickos from Leeds are going to be a bit peeved because they might not go from one division of football to another division of football.
See you next season lads.
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Boring.
Look forward to watching us on telly in the Prem, mate.
posted on 14/3/20
The easy and obvious thing to do is tell the players and staff to self isolate for a couple of weeks, then none of them will have the virus anymore, then crack on and play the rest of the season in empty stadia. The whole thing is becoming farcical here in New Zealand where i live, 5, yes just 5 confirmed cases of the virus are among us, all of who are isolated, yet still they are cancelling festivals last minute and still the lemmings are ransacking supermarkets for toilet roll. 0.000001% of our population has the virus and is isolated, yet still the panic happens.
posted on 14/3/20
For the vast, vast, vast majority of us a cold is as bad as it will get, it's only those that are pretty much ruined anyway that it's pushing over the edge, so harsh as it may sound, just let it run it's course and carry on as normal. Closing everything down for a month or more will ruin far more lives than the virus
posted on 14/3/20
Agree with all that, the truth is that people generally don’t behave responsibly in these situations. If everyone did so these drastic measures would not be necessary.
It’s a serious situation but is not a calamity on a big picture level. Of course individual deaths are tragic!
posted on 14/3/20
comment by Harper - Ram in Auckland. meh. (U13926)
posted 1 hour, 1 minute ago
For the vast, vast, vast majority of us a cold is as bad as it will get, it's only those that are pretty much ruined anyway that it's pushing over the edge, so harsh as it may sound, just let it run it's course and carry on as normal. Closing everything down for a month or more will ruin far more lives than the virus
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Id happily have a cough for 48 hours if it meant we beat Fulham at ER
posted on 14/3/20
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posted on 14/3/20
Governments cannot do nothing and let it run its course just because it’ll only kill off the old and the sick.
It would mean them having a hand in the deaths of thousands of their own citizens. This isn’t WW2 Germany.
Some folk need to get some proper perspective.
We have to try and if we lose to it then so be it but we have definitely got to try.
posted on 14/3/20
comment by Rameses, Kom op jij Rams (U7190)
posted 9 minutes ago
Governments cannot do nothing and let it run its course just because it’ll only kill off the old and the sick.
It would mean them having a hand in the deaths of thousands of their own citizens. This isn’t WW2 Germany.
Some folk need to get some proper perspective.
We have to try and if we lose to it then so be it but we have definitely got to try.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agree with this. at any rate it would be smart to treat this as the dress rehearsal for the big burger that coming up next and possibly just round the corner....
posted on 14/3/20
I’d like nothing better than for football to be re-starting in the near future, but it’s not realistic. Cases are going to steadily increase over the next three months. Unless every player of every club has been infected and recovered then they will remain vulnerable. While the advice for self-isolation continues the outbreak will last for months not weeks. This is the intention. While you might think it would be better if everybody got it now so that it would all be over more quickly, the NHS would be utterly overwhelmed. It still might be, even with it spread over months. Even if you had a policy of not actively treating anybody over 70, there will still be large numbers of people below that age needing intensive care. Having an age cut-off is not something society would accept anyway, although it is inevitable that there will be a large element of unofficial rationing in hospitals when intensive care beds are in very short supply.
Whether we like it or not, it’s going to drag on for a very long time. The reasons for this suspension are still going to be there in a few months time, unless something drastically unexpected happens. I understand the desire to shoot the messenger, feel free, but it just seems inevitable that at some point the complexities of trying to cram everything in, coupled with the uncertainty about when that would even be possible, will lead to a pragmatic decision to make it the season that never happened and start afresh, maybe in September.
posted on 14/3/20
Calm down folks. I can understand the panic but history suggests an antidote will soon be found. A vaccine is in the offing. Only a matter of time and we can all put this behind us.
posted on 14/3/20
There is no ‘antidote”. This is a virus. A vaccine is probably about 18 months away at the earliest. These are simple facts.
posted on 14/3/20
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 2 minutes ago
There is no ‘antidote”. This is a virus. A vaccine is probably about 18 months away at the earliest. These are simple facts.
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China say they nearly have one ready for testing. They would wouldn’t they?
posted on 14/3/20
Call it antidote , call it vaccine as long as it's efficacious. Pre clinical trials are ongoing in the development of a vaccine. Only problem of course is the human trials which usually pass through strict regulation. But then if this becomes even more serious, surely the regulatory agencies will bend the rules.
Google Medicago and covid19.
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